Kat, I thought of you and the 50-some student classroom while driving from SFO yesterday --I was listening to the California Report on NPR and they were talking about education funding and class sizes and stuff. I can't imagine teaching or even being in a class that big! YAY for getting the grant, and I hope the people who leave are people you don't like anyway!
smonster, I hope your weekend gets better. :(
I went on linked in today and emailed a couple of old colleagues who are now at new companies, asking about how those are.
I am done. My deadline was Friday the 13th, but it's still before midnight on the West Coast, right, so that counts. I'm happy I didn't vomit on the keyboard or pass out.
Note: This, my first official copyediting job, was M/M. I laughed and laughed when my editor asked if that would be a problem, since I checked that off on the "Would you copyedit X genre?" on the list?
Um, no. No problem.
Going to bed now.
Yay on the grant Kat. Here's to changing what's not working!
Congrats on the grant, Kat!
Congratulations, Kat!
Yesterday was a rough day what with the big final deadline and co-worker driving me batty, but counterbalanced by nummy Thai food (which I got a different co-worker and longtime friend to try—she loved it!), nummy 1940s style-porn on Supernatural, and a pleasant surprise hook up with an acquaintance-with-benefits I'd lost contact with a couple of years ago.
Also, I don't know if the change will be good, but it will be different. And sometimes different is necessary. I know that what we have now is NOT working (oh hi class of 53 students in my room!) and that some change is better than none.
Sounds like it!
I realized this morning what makes the cat pounce at 5am: the electric blanket being on. Oh well.
(2) Quantity controls "to make sure you're treating yourself with the appropriate levels of medication" for things including migraine drugs. FUCK YOU CVS. FUCK YOU WITH A RUSTY CHAINSAW. WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO TELL ME HOW MANY MIGRAINES I GET A MONTH?!!
Oh my god, Tim has Humana, who implemented quantity limits starting January 1. Which means that for his ADD meds, he now pays a $40 co-pay for 1/3 -- that's right, ONE THIRD -- of what his doctor prescribed. If he (as the letter put it) "would like to take the full prescribed amount," he gets to pay out of pocket for it.
Why in the HELL does someone at an insurance company get to override his DOCTOR'S decision about how much he needs to take to goddamn function every day?
The letter did say that his doctor can request an exemption on the quantity limit if he "truly feels it's medically necessary." That's right, Humana said "truly" -- again, big faceless bureaucratic company questioning the doctor's knowledge of his own patient.
So Tim called his doctor to have him deal with Humana, which he is doing, but it's bullshit that he should even have to. Total 100% bullshit. And cuts into the time his doctor could be spending on actual direct patient care.
Never mind the fact that the manufacturers of a lot of ADD drugs are apparently not making enough to meet demand, and haven't been for close to a year. Tim knows people who haven't been able to get Adderall for several months. Fucking INSANE. Why aren't the manufacturers making the drug when there's clearly a need? No idea.
Also, CVS Caremark is a bunch of jerks, too. They gave me a huge hassle with my IUD Saga from last year. Aetna contracted with CVS Caremark to supply the IUD, and then Aetna -- as insurance companies do -- paid the "negotiated amount" for the IUD, which was something like $400.
CVS Caremark billed the IUD at $800, and kept sending me letters that were NOT telling *me* to pay the other $400, but telling me -- I am not making this up -- to call Aetna and ask them if they were going to "pay the rest of their balance."
Uh, no. Aetna contracted with you. I *know* that *you* know how it works. Either deal with it, or bill me. You do NOT get to tell me to do bureaucratic legwork for you.
I didn't call, and they stopped sending the letters, and never billed me.
